The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul... Spare hours v. 1, 1861 - Página 439por John Brown - 1861Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 páginas
...hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events ol true history have not that magnitude which satisfied the mind... | |
| 1853 - 604 páginas
...one dares to call trash, and whose very definition of art was couched in expressions like these:—" There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample...variety than can be found in the nature of things ;" " the use of feigned history is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 páginas
...been, to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 páginas
...hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of y G. Bohn Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 530 páginas
...shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, tho world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisficth the... | |
| 1855 - 864 páginas
...intend that, for all poetical purposes, Nature should altogether be kept out of view. He thinks that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. He would, therefore, paint Feature in artistic colours, such as will give it more gaudiness and variety,... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 528 páginas
...hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion...variety than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfleth the... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 494 páginas
...hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in the points wherein the nature of things doth deny it — the world being in proportion...variety than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 páginas
...hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it ; the world being in proportion...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
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